Today, one of the most common problems are with the gastrointestinal tract. The statistics confirms that more than 75 percent of Russian citizens suffer from a "stomach". At the same time, not more than half of them regard the symptoms of stomach disease as a potential threat to life. Physicians account for several reasons: a low standard of living and, as a result, inadequate nutrition, inattentive attitude to the body, lack of essential microelements and vitamins. At the same time, as experts note, quite often inessential problems with the stomach and intestinal tract lead to complications and even to death.
According to statistics, most often people suffer from gastritis and peptic ulcer diseases of the duodenum and stomach. Now a little about these diseases, the causes of the appearance and symptoms.
An ulcer is a site of a destroyed mucous membrane. The causes of this are the ingression of Helicobacter pylori infection into the body. Penetrates it more often with the reception in writing unwashed vegetables and fruits. In addition, physicians identify and secondary cause of ulcers - psychoneurological disorders, frequent use of alcohol, smoking, taking antibiotics. Signs of gastric ulcer: belch with sour taste, decreased appetite and weight loss. Rare blood in the feces is also a sign of a peptic ulcer, but this symptom is manifested only during a period of exacerbation of the disease. Early pain (that is, occurring after an hour or half an hour after eating) indicates ulcers in the upper parts of the stomach. Late (after a half or two hours) - about the disease in the lower divisions. In other words, the symptoms of stomach disease can vary depending on where the ulcer develops.
Gastritis is an inflamed mucous membrane. With this stomach disease, the symptoms can be the most common for a person, since it is inevitably associated with food poisoning, poisoning with toxins (due to alcohol and not only), disorders of microflora (which is associated with taking medications that affect the microflora of the stomach, and also by taking certain Kind of food: fast food, too spicy or too fatty food).
So, the signs of gastritis: after eating you feel colic in the stomach and nausea, vomiting and diarrhea occur, as well as the color of the face turns pale, a white coating appears on the tongue, dryness or drooling. In this case, the symptoms of the stomach disease (with gastritis) vary depending on whether the secretion function is increased or decreased in humans. In the first case, there are pain after eating, nausea, as well as belching with sour taste. In the second - a sour taste in the mouth is replaced by a metallic one, diarrhea, constipation, nausea are observed.
In addition to the characteristic pains, there are other symptoms of stomach disease, which hint to the owner that it's time to pay attention to your body. It is a smell from the mouth, frequent eructations, bloating, a feeling of heaviness, flatulence, too much salivation, discomfort during swallowing food, frequent diarrhea.